Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.

The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.

Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.

      • iuminou@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        eh costa rica is pretty okay

        the police pretty much only goes after shoplifters and drug smugglers and the government doesnt have the budget to be a surveillance/suppression state if they tried

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          Fair enough, it’s all on a curve I suppose. If I’ve gotten anything out of the strife I’m seeing in the world, it’s a appreciation for every blessing I can count, while I can

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          I’ve thought about moving to costa rica because you don’t have a military and everyone forgets you exist.